Improvement in corn-planters



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

ALPHEUS FOX, OF ROCK FALLS, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,632, dated October 11, 1875; application filed February 10, 1875.

To all whom it'may concern Be it known that I, ALPHEUS Fox, of Rock Falls, Whitesides county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement on Corn- Planters; and 1 do hereby declare that the followingis afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification.

This invention consists, iii-part, of the frame, runners, wheels, grain-boxes, and lever, as ordinarily used in two-horse corn-planters.

The dropping apparatus consists of a halfwheel,.having its upper edge beveled outward, attached inside and to the back of the grainbox, working on a square bolt by the lever and cross-bar, as at m m, Fig. 3. In the upper edge of the half-wheel are two beveled holes, whose diameters increase downward, and whose direction is first downward and then to the inside surface of the halfwheel, by which the grain is deposited first from the bottom of the holes 'i i, Fig. 2 of drawings, into the openings K K, the grain thence passing downward into upper part of runner n, Fig. 3. The size of the holes i i is regulated by means of a slot, on inside of halfwheel, adjusted and held by screws 00 a", Fig. 2. e es seen in Figs. 1, 2, 3 of drawings, is a stop with a beveled edge, to correspond with the bevel of half-wheel, to prevent the grain escaping from the holes n0, Figs. 3 and 4, is a second drop, n being a small box, into which the corn is deposited through t, Fig. 2. e, in Figs. 3 and 4, is a slide. operated by lever E, in lower end of which is an aperture, 8, Figs. 2 and 3, which carries the grain down and out of box a, liberating it in heel of runner. 0, Figs. 3 and 4, is a notch out out of the inner upright edge of runner to enable the dropper to see the grain as it falls from second drop into the ground.

I claim I 1. The vertical segmental seedwheel H, pivoted within the hopper and having its upper edge beveled, and provided with inclined holes i 11, by which the grain is picked up and deposited in the openings K K, substantially as specified.

2. The pivoted segmental seed-wheel H, in combination with the beveled stop G, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. The combination of the pivoted segmental seed-wheel H, pivoted levers m m, and perforated slide 6 S, with the hopper and seedtubes, substantially as and for the purposes described.

ALPHEUS FOX.

. Witnesses:

V. S. FERGUSON, CIL'H. DYER. 

